Chapter 55

*Heaven-Dependent* world, North Sea area.

The sun is bright, and the cool sea breeze blows ripples on the sea surface.

A ship hanging a banner that can carry dozens of people is slowly sailing on the sea at a steady speed.

The *Heaven-Dependent* Zhang Jie, dressed in black martial arts clothes, is standing on the deck,

and the warm sea breeze blows his long hair, which is as black as ink.

In ancient times, people paid attention to "the body, hair, and skin are given by parents, and one dares not damage them at will,"

so Zhang Jie, who follows the customs of the place, also keeps long hair.

In front of the ship, the outline of an island is looming.

"Guest, I'm afraid it will be a while before we reach Ice-Fire Island; why not go into the cabin and rest for a while."

The boat captain, with dark skin and a face full of traces of wind and frost, came to Zhang Jie's side and said flatteringly.

"No need."

Zhang Jie rejected the boat captain's suggestion.

He knew the boat captain's words were right; the so-called "looking at the mountain and running the horse to death,"

here one can see the outline of the island, but it will take at least several hours to reach the edge of the island,

not to mention that one might have to sail around the island to find a suitable landing point.

However, although the boat captain had good intentions,

this ancient wooden boat is not a luxury cruise ship like in the 21st century, which is like a hotel on the sea,

with everything for eating, drinking, and playing.

This ship, like other wooden ships, is dark and damp in the cabin,

with rats running rampant, and the smell on the crew members who haven't bathed for a long time,

mixed with the smell of various sundries fermenting, is truly soul-stirring.

When Zhang Jie went in for the first time, his sensitive sense of smell almost made him stumble.

Since then, Zhang Jie would rather meditate on the deck than go to the cabin.

"As you wish, guest."

The boat captain looked at Zhang Jie with hidden awe.

When Zhang Jie first boarded the ship,

he thought it was some young master from a noble family looking for excitement on the ship,

and was even prepared to watch the joke of this handsome, fair-skinned young master,

who looked like he was pampered and delicate.

After all, the sea doesn't care about your background; when it should be stormy, it is stormy.

On this bumpy sea, even children who grew up by the sea can't bear it.

If it were a young master like Zhang Jie, he would probably vomit everything and be unable to eat.

But he found that Zhang Jie was like an old fisherman who had been at sea for decades, without any discomfort.

If it were just this, he would only sigh that Zhang Jie had strong adaptability, not awe.

What made him feel awe was that during a sudden storm,

when he and other crew members were shivering while pulling ropes,

and could only pray silently in their hearts for Mazu's protection,

Zhang Jie was able to walk leisurely without any protection,

just as if the torrential rain and the knife-like storm didn't exist.

What shocked him even more was that after a storm, Zhang Jie's clothes were not wet at all!

Since then, he knew that Zhang Jie was definitely not an ordinary person.

If it weren't for Zhang Jie clearly coming from the inland, he would have thought it was the Long Wang descended to earth!

After all, apart from the Long Wang who can call the wind and rain, who can treat a storm as nothing?

Zhang Jie didn't care about the boat captain's shock.

Since sharing with the *Heavenly Dragon* Zhang Jie and getting sixty years of internal energy from the Great Yin-Yang Art, his Nine Yang Divine Art has been completed.

Before the consumption reaches a limit, the internal energy can be said to be endless.

The little internal energy consumed to block the wind and rain was not as much as he recovered at the same time.

In the terms of the martial arts world, he has reached the master realm of "a feather cannot be added,

and a fly cannot land."

As for the bottleneck of the Nine Yang Divine Art needing to experience a life-and-death crisis to completely stimulate potential

and then reach completion, he didn't encounter it.

Perhaps it is because he, as a traveler, has truly died once.

The experience of being crushed into two dimensions by a large truck was unforgettable.

Even though he has been reincarnated for more than ten years, he still remembers it clearly.

"Ice-Fire Island, Xie Xun, Dragon-Slaying Saber."

Zhang Jie looked at the island in front, his eyes deep.

He traveled thousands of miles from the Zhu Wu Lianhuan Manor in the far west Kunlun Mountains to the Ice-Fire Island in the far east,

just for the Dragon-Slaying Saber in the hands of the Golden-Haired Lion King Xie Xun.

However, Zhang Jie is certainly not for the sake of holding this Dragon-Slaying Saber to "command the world, no one dares not to obey."

No matter how loud the name of the Dragon-Slaying Saber is, it cannot change the fact that it is just a divine weapon in the martial arts world.

It is not a weapon like a spiritual treasure or immortal artifact in the *Xianxia* world that can independently destroy mountains and break mountains, or overturn rivers and seas.

In terms of level, Zhang Jie feels that the Dragon-Slaying Saber might not be as good as the E-level weapon used by warriors in *Swallowed Star*.

What Zhang Jie values is the *Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms* hidden by Guo Jing and Huang Rong in the Dragon-Slaying Saber,

the *Nine Yin Manual* and other secret manuals, and the *Wu Mu Legacy* and other military strategies left by Yue Fei.

Now Zhang Jie, who possesses the *Great Yin-Yang Art* and *Nine Yang Divine Art*, is not short of cultivation methods;

what he lacks are peerless skills like the *Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms* and *Six Meridian Divine Sword*.

If a cultivation method is building a reservoir and storing water,

then a peerless martial skill is building a floodgate to release water.

With the same internal energy, of course, the person who has a martial art that can strike with more internal energy and use internal energy more exquisitely wins.

"In terms of power output, the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms are very outstanding."

Zhang Jie touched his chin and thought.

From *Heavenly Dragon*, *Eagle-Shooting*, *God-Condor*, to *Heaven-Dependent*,

the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms have always been at the top of the martial arts pyramid.

*Heavenly Dragon* has that man who is invincible as soon as the sound system rings.

*Eagle-Shooting* has Hong Qigong, one of the Five Greats.

In *God-Condor*, Guo Jing, the hero Guo, is famous all over the world.

In *Heaven-Dependent*, the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms don't appear much, only used by Song Qingshu.

But after Song Qingshu got the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, in just a few months, he could

fight Yu Lianzhou, who is ranked as a first-class master in the Jianghu, and the effect was nothing short of amazing.

Not to mention, as soon as the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms come out, the whole body is shrouded in golden dragon-shaped Qi, which is extremely dazzling!

Zhang Jie: Whether it's strong or not is a temporary matter, but whether it's handsome or not is a lifelong matter!

After sharing, Zhang Jie, who is already as pleasing as Yanzu and Tianle, and only a thread weaker than all the readers, said:

"These Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms are destined for me!"

"The other *Nine Yin Manual* and *Wu Mu Legacy* must also be collected!"

Zhang Jie opened and closed his five fingers, making a grasping gesture:

Only children make multiple-choice questions; in the adult world, I want them all.

So, the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, *Wu Mu Legacy*, and *Nine Yin Manual*, I want them all!

As for how Zhang Jie knows the location of Ice-Fire Island?

Although *The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber* does not explicitly record the location of Ice-Fire Island,

Zhang Jie can still roughly calculate the location of Ice-Fire Island based on the world map before traveling through time.

The Ice-Fire Island in *The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber* is very likely the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Mr. Jin did not state in the original book that Ice-Fire Island is an island surrounded by the sea on all four sides.

In fact, Ice-Fire Island is extremely vast, extending to the north, with no end in sight, and the Kamchatka Peninsula fits perfectly.

Also, Ice-Fire Island is very far north, where you can see the aurora, and even have white bears,

so it can only be in the Kamchatka, Alaska, or Chukchi Peninsula area.

The terrain and orientation of the Chukchi Peninsula and Alaska do not meet the requirements of Ice-Fire Island,

and the Chukchi Peninsula is a tundra landscape, not the lush forests and rich products described in the book.

Although some people think Ice-Fire Island is the Aleutian Islands,

the Aleutian Islands have strong winds and rain and fog, and the islands are full of meadows and moss, with no forests.

The Kamchatka Peninsula is far enough north to see the aurora,

the temperature on the island is not high, the snow line on the mountains is very low, the winter snow is very rich, and there is floating ice on the sea.

And the Kamchatka Peninsula is also the most volcanically dense area in the world,

everywhere there are volcanic eruptions, magma overflowing, and a large number of hot springs,

geysers and other landscapes, which can be described as a blend of ice and fire,

which meets the original intention of Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu naming this island Ice-Fire Island.

Also, Kamchatka is not desolate and barren, the animals and plants are very rich, and the summer is also lush,

with white snow dotted with green fields, magnificent and boundless, which is also similar to what is described in the book.

Ice-Fire Island has deer, no horses, and no snakes, which is exactly the characteristic of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Ice-Fire Island blows south wind in summer and north wind in winter, which also conforms to the monsoon characteristics of the Eurasian continent.

Although the Kamchatka Peninsula has not completely entered the Arctic Circle,

the latitude is quite high, and the sun is in the sky for most of the time in summer,

even at night it is a white night, like the dusk after the sun sets,

and in winter, most of the time is a long dark night, which conforms to the six months of daylight and

six months of darkness described in the book, where east, west, south, and north are not very distinguishable, and where the sun rises cannot be considered the east.

Various factors indicate that the Ice-Fire Island in *The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber* is the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Or rather, Mr. Jin created Ice-Fire Island based on the natural conditions of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

And the reason Zhang Jie can find Ice-Fire Island so smoothly

is also because he has a secret weapon, which is his good junior brother—Zhang Wuji!

Here it must be said that Zhang Wuji is worthy of being the son of luck who appears once in a hundred years,

his talent is truly intelligent, and after walking through it once with his parents, he remembered the route to Ice-Fire Island.

If Zhang Wuji were like an ordinary ten-year-old child,

unable to remember the route to Ice-Fire Island, then he wouldn't have been calculated by Zhu Zhangling,

and wouldn't have obtained the *Nine Yang Divine Art* to resolve the cold poison of the Cold-Dark Divine Palm.

One can only say, every drink and every peck is predestined.

For Zhang Wuji, his fate is determined by heaven, not by him!

At first, when Zhang Jie asked Zhang Wuji to take him to find Xie Xun, Zhang Wuji was unwilling.

But when Zhang Jie said, "Junior brother Wuji,

you wouldn't want your godfather to be alone and helpless on Ice-Fire Island, would you?"

Zhang Wuji immediately followed Zhang Jie to Ice-Fire Island.